Month: February 2012

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Digging Out

Ben and I both needed to get out of the apartment yesterday, so we hopped on public transit to Aurora, where we had breakfast at Big City Burrito.

Colorado Station

Colorado Station

Colorado Station

I want a hat with ears!

Snowbound

After we finished breakfast, we headed back downtown.

Blue Bear is cold.

Ben actually took this shot, but it was too good for me not to post here.

16th Street Mall

Snow Alley

Not much call for that today.

Don't even think about it!

Too Much Foam

Not much need for refrigeration at the moment.

ACME

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Unattended children will be ____________.

Once again Ben and I were in a restaurant, and a pack of feral children were running wild. The parents—as usual—were completely oblivious. I can now easily understand how children go missing. With such insouciant parents, children in public places are low hanging fruit for predators.

If I had behaved the way I've seen children behaving in restaurants (and a multitude of other public places) I would've been immediately removed to the car and probably wouldn't be able to sit for a week after arriving home. My (and Ben's) parents (as did most families once upon a time) had a zero-tolerance policy in regards to behaving in public, and it was a good thing. But somewhere along the line parents gave up being authority figures and became more concerned with being friends with their offspring.

Becoming friends with your parents is something that may or may not happen after you're an adult; prior to that it shouldn't even be part of the parenting equation.

 

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France Declares Scientology a Scam

Well duh!

From Joe.My.God. (I especially like Joe's final comment. Emphasis mine.)

Now if we could only get this kind of ruling here.

A French court has slapped a fraud sentence on the Church of Scientology, saying it targets vulnerable people for commercial gain. The ruling is a major setback for Scientologists in France, and it marks the first time here that the Church of Scientology has been convicted of organized fraud. The development puts its famous recruitment methods under a spotlight. Scientologists vehemently reject the conviction, saying that they are the victims of anti-cult organizations trying to destroy them. "Respect my religion," chanted several dozen Scientologists, braving sub-zero temperatures in the front of a courthouse in Paris.

But really, France. How different are alien spaceships and soul volcanoes from water-walking zombies and talking shrubberies?

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Quote of the Day

Left at Joe. My. God. in response to this.

"Little  Ricky Frothy Mix stamping his widdle teabagger feet, hoping the wingnuts will save his now dead and rotting campaign. What is clearer than clear is this sad pathetic self-hating closet case is gay—very, very, very, very gay. And  it scares the froth out of him every waking moment of his hateful little life. Spew all the  hate you want Ricky; it won't make those glorious images of all those naked men you dream of go away. Barracade your closet door  all you want. It won't change the fact that  you are what you fear most, and what you clearly desire most." ~ DaveinSF

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And Then There's This…

Seriously. It's 28℉ out there right now with snow flurries going on, and there are people getting drunk in the hot tub.

It's unusual to see them venture out there during the day; normally this only happens after dark.

Last night (with the temperature again in the mid 20s):

Ben: "There are people down in the fucking hot tub!"

Me: "Don't you mean, 'There are people down in the hot tub fucking?'"

One friend has suggested a name for the…solution…that the tub is filled with after a typical night: egg drop soup, but personally, when there are only guys down there and the jets are on full blast I prefer "Santorum Souffle."

Ugh.

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Snow Day!

Guess who didn't have to go to work today?

But I did venture out this afternoon to capture some scenes of "the worst storm of the season so far" (as all the TeeVee stations are calling it) in the immediate neighborhood.







Anderson gets dusted even when he doesn't go out to play in it.

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Quote of the Day

Stolen verbatim from Bill in Exile. (Sorry Scott, but I couldn't have said this better myself.)

"I have to say that killing women with breast cancer before they might consider abortion sometime in their lives is one way to eliminate a woman's right to choose."

TBogg in a post about the fact that the Susan G. Komen Foundation—the foundation that sponsors The Race for the Cure that pretty much everyone and their mother has, at one time or another, been hit up for a donation, usually by a co-worker—has cut off funding for breast exams to Planned Parenthood because the Komen Foundation senior executives are virulent anti-choicers and want to punish women for having unapproved sexy time.

My mother died of breast cancer in 1987 at the age of 48 and every time I've been approached to sponsor someone participating in The Race for the Cure I've done so, gladly.

Never again.

Instead I've just donated money to Planned Parenthood and I'd urge you to do the same.

You can do so by clicking this link.

And if you do, be sure to give the donation as an Honorary Giving gift in the name of Karen Handel so that she receives a nice card from Planned Parenthood thanking her for the gift made in her name.

Because she's the fuckwit at Komen who decided it was better to let women die of breast cancer than risk giving them the ability to have control over their own bodies.

Here's her info:

Karen Handel
Senior VP of Fail
c/o Susan G. Komen Foundation
P.O. Box 650309
Dallas, TX 75265-0309

I made a donation. Have you?